The activist artists Klaar van der Lippe and Bart Stuart have lived in the Van der Pek neighbourhood for years and have experienced all the changes personally. For Social Capital, they develop an app and performances that aim to conjure up experiences of new collectivity in public space. The performances [...more]
Monnik, a speculative agency for future and fiction, will start with a pilot of the World Building Laboratory. In work sessions with interested parties, we will build towards shared future scenarios for a sustainable and inclusive Amsterdam. As a specific case, we will take the Sixhaven area. The work sessions [...more]
On 26 September 2018, Lara Almarcegui’s art installation BOLD TOWER BUILDING MATERIALS was unveiled. Almarcegui’s work used the façade of the new Hyperion Lyceum on Overhoeks aan ‘t IJ to show passers-by a simple list of materials: 19,436 tonnes of gravel, 11,213 tonnes of sand, 7,490 tonnes of cement, etc. [...more]
Start of the long-term art programme Social Capital in September 2018 Artists react to (the consequences of) the building boom in Amsterdam North Amsterdam is popular. The city rides the waves of the international economy; the throngs of tourists, many Airbnbs and large-scale construction and renovation projects cannot have gone [...more]